Word: iraqization
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...Germans, pressing through Egypt and the Caucasus, had compelled Britain and the U.S. to begin, hurriedly and late, the building of a preventive army in Iraq and Persia under General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson (TIME, Aug. 31). The British already had some forces there, but the sudden appointment of General Wilson and the feverish reinforcement were evidence that, in effect, a new army was being created for a new front...
...more importance later would be the fact that, behind the Caucasus defenders' backs, were growing armies of the United Nations in Iraq and Iran...
Wendell Willkie got the Presidential blessing last week for another trip. At his own suggestion, he will visit Russia and China, with stopovers in Egypt, Turkey, Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Iran and Iraq. Since the U.S. will be drawn into ever closer cooperation with these countries, Mr. Willkie said, he wants to know the countries and their leaders better...
...Turkey and the whole Near East between Suez and the Caucasus; 2) the need for an immediate Allied move in the Near East to counteract the threat. The British, choosing big, 60-year-old General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo'') Wilson to command a new independent army in Iraq and Persia, were perhaps preparing such a move...
...Near East is the best oil hunting ground. Russia, Iran, Iraq, Arabia, Palestine, Turkey, Egypt, Rumania promise more oil from future discoveries than any other region. The eastern Mediterranean is one end of the "oil axis." The other end is the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean area. These two pools already contain two-thirds of the world's proved reserves...